Luminics or actual HIDS??

[Super Unique]

5400k is closest to natural daylight temps. Cheap HID is actually less light, and glares in the eyes of oncoming cars, making it difficult for them to see. Popping HID lights into housings made for halogen is also not safe, as it is not focusing/projecting the light properly. Please put some though into this before doing it. Most times it's not worth the $ and hassle only to end up with a less effective lighting.

 

[Sveivo]

No offense to anyone, but Luminics are trash. They are colored bulbs that reduce visibility. I had multiple sets (different colors).

And to someone who said that you need to pay $300 for an HID kit... it might have been this way 5 years ago or so. $130 seems like a low price, but you can get a great kit for that money here on the forums. I've had mine for over a year with no issues.

And please don't by colored bulbs.

Peace.

 

[oaklandopen]

No offense to anyone, but Luminics are trash. They are colored bulbs that reduce visibility. I had multiple sets (different colors).

And to someone who said that you need to pay $300 for an HID kit... it might have been this way 5 years ago or so. $130 seems like a low price, but you can get a great kit for that money here on the forums. I've had mine for over a year with no issues.

And please don't by colored bulbs.

Peace.

granted there may be more companies that produce aftermarket xenon kits, but the site that i was referring to still has the same $300 price tag for some of their items (mccullough). and they're reputable too

and if lumanics are still just halogen, im gonna call BS on them being brighter than even the ms stock temp xenons, which are like 4300K or something. the key is not the brightness of the bulb, it's the amount of projected light. sure, you can still eurolites (crap) into a headlight housing and they'll "look brighter" compaired to the other bulb, but get behind the wheel and see which one is actually producing more usefull light.

which brings up another point, no one should be replacing their stock halogens with xenons anyway, at least in non-projector housing. not only is it bad for the other drivers, it diffuses the actual projected light anyway so it doens't work as well as you think.

 

[Sveivo]

granted there may be more companies that produce aftermarket xenon kits, but the site that i was referring to still has the same $300 price tag for some of their items (mccullough). and they're reputable too

and if lumanics are still just halogen, im gonna call BS on them being brighter than even the ms stock temp xenons, which are like 4300K or something. the key is not the brightness of the bulb, it's the amount of projected light. sure, you can still eurolites (crap) into a headlight housing and they'll "look brighter" compaired to the other bulb, but get behind the wheel and see which one is actually producing more usefull light.

which brings up another point, no one should be replacing their stock halogens with xenons anyway, at least in non-projector housing. not only is it bad for the other drivers, it diffuses the actual projected light anyway so it doens't work as well as you think.

Yes, I agree with you that some kits are probably still more expensive than others. I guess I was just questioning whether it's really worth it to pay that price nowadays.

And yes, retrofitting HID's should not be done without proper projector setup. I guess it's the ricer in me that wants his car to be more than it was designed to be. Still, with colored bulbs you would be robbing yourself of light.

 

[oaklandopen]

Yes, I agree with you that some kits are probably still more expensive than others. I guess I was just questioning whether it's really worth it to pay that price nowadays.

And yes, retrofitting HID's should not be done without proper projector setup. I guess it's the ricer in me that wants his car to be more than it was designed to be. Still, with colored bulbs you would be robbing yourself of light.

like a lot have said, we all had that phase at one point or another. i started just a little before fast&furious came out. i put crappy eurolites in my old 94 grand cherokee. after i installed i looked at them from a few yards away and said "damn they're bright." the first night i actually drove with them on, the high beams looked more like my stock low beams.